Grain-treating machine.



J. W. & C. WAYLING.

GRAIN TREATING MACHINE. APPLICATION man APR. 6, 1914.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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J. W. & C. WAYLING.

GRAIN TREATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 6. 1914.

1,177,666. Patented Apr. 4,1916.

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WITNESSES INVENTORS gm h PH co., WASHINGTON D 1:

By m x v UNITED STATEI5ATENT OFFICE,

.mmns WILLIAM WAYLING AND CHARLES'WAYLING,

- CANAD or GLEN EWEN, SASKATCHEWAN,

GRAIN-TREATING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patnted Apr. 4;, 1916.

Application filed Aprile, 1914. Serial No. 830,026.

It consists essentially in a suitable sup-f ported table carrying asolution tank and a hopper, an open ended box like casing beneath thehopper and provided at the lower end with a chute and at the upper endwith a deflecting plate, agitators slidably mounted within the casingand a spray pipe located at the head of the casing and connected with atank, the parts being arranged and constructed as hereinafter more partothe under side of the table.

ticularly described.

Figure 1 represents a side view of the complete machine. Fig. 2represents a vertical sectional view longitudinally through the same.Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional'view through thehopper and casing, the section being taken in the plane denoted by theline XX, Fig. 2.

In the drawings like characters of refer- Ence indicate correspondingparts in each ure.

1 represents a table mounted on suitable legs 2. The table carries atank 3 and a hopper 4, the hopper opening through a suitable feedopening 5 formed in the table to the interior of an open ended box likecasing 6. The casing is suitably fastened The feed through the opening 5is controlled by a sliding gate 5 which can be arranged in any desirableway such that it .can be manipulated from the outside of the hopper. The

lower end of the casing is provided with a pair of opposing downwardlyconverging guide plates 7 forming a chute.

S is a deflecting plate within the upper end of the casing and adjoiningthe feed opening, the plate actually inclining downwardly from one ofthe upper corners to a point about midway across the casing.

9, 10 and 11 are a number of agitators mounted within the casing andprovided in the present instance with four vanes ar-- ranged more orless at right angles one to the otherand having their ends connected toend disks 12. The agitators are staggered within the casing so that thematerial passed onto the top one will be directed to the second onewhich in turn will throw it over onto the bottom one. The top agitatoris located immediately adjoining the deflecting plate 8. 1

13represents a feed pipe passing from the tank to the upper end of thecasing. The feed pipe has the lower end thereof bent to pass around thefeed opening 5 and the said bent end is perforated so as to effect aspray within'the upper end of the casing.

A valve 14 is inserted in the feed pipe to I control the flow of thetreating solution through the pipe from the tank.

When the device is used the grain to be treated is placed in the tank.The gate is opened to allow the grain to flow from the hopper and at thesame time the valve is opened. As the grain falls through the feed pipeit is deflected by the deflecting plate onto the top agitator whichturns and drops it onto the second agitator, this in turn depositing itonto the bottom agitator.

In passing through the bent perforated end of the pipe the grainiseffectively treated with the solution spraying from the pipe The grainfinally escaping through the chute at the bottom of the casing will befound to be effectively treated with the solution as the agitatorsthoroughly mix and turn over the grain as it is passed through thecasing.

What we claim as our invention is In a grain treating machine thecombination with a suitably mounted table, a feed: hopper having thebottom thereof opening through the table, an open ended, verticallydisposed, box-like casing disposed beneath the underside of the tableand having the upper end thereof surrounding the feed opening and asolution feed pipe contained within the upper end of the casing andsur-' rounding the feed opening and having the inner side thereofperforated, of a plurality of similar rotatable agitators disposedwithin the casing and mounted on horizontal axes and staggered inrelation to each other throughout the length of the casing, eachagitator being formed from end disks and Signed at Carndnfi' this 9thday ofMarchQ intervening vanes radiating from the sup- 1914:.

porting axis and an inclined deflecting plate 7 JAMES WVILLIAM VVAYLING.Within the upper end of the casing and adja- I CHARLES NAYLINGL 5 centthe feed opening and designed to deflect In the presence of- 7 materialonto the inner side of the upper PETER GARNDUFF, of the agitators. W. R.FoULDs.

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